Laravel translatable

This is a Laravel package for (auto)translatable models. It provides functionality of multilingual models with an option of using external services for automatic translations. Google Cloud Translate is already integrated into the package and adding another service is made pretty easy.

If you're not interested in using any automatic translation services, and just looking to make your models multilingual I suggest using dismav/laravel-translatable package as it has a lot more history and community behind it is way way larger.

Index

• Info
• Quick start
• FAQ
• Contribution

Info

The package is create for Laravel 5.6 and 5.7.

Quick start

Step 1: Install package

Add the package in your composer.json by executing the command.

composer require mihkullorg/laravel-translatable

Next, add the service provider to config/app.php

Mihkullorg\Translatable\TranslatableServiceProvider::class

Step 2: Set up the environment and migration.

Publish the migration file.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=translatable

Set up your Google Cloud Translate/GCT service account and select your preferred way of authentication from Googe Cloud authenticiation docs. As Google supports authenticating through environment variables and it being really comfortable, this package is using it too. I prefer authenticating by setting GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS variable to the path of the provided service account private key file.

Step 3: Add Translatable trait to model

use Mihkullorg\Translatable\Traits\Translatable;

class Post extends Model 
{
    use Translatable;
    
    public $fillable = ['body'];
}

The trait adds necessary translation relationship methods

$post->translations();
$post->translation($field, $language, $createIfNotFresh = false);

Translation is "fresh" when the updated_at of the Translation model is older than the update_at of the Translatable model.

$post->freshTranslation($field, $language);

To create a translation manually, you can call method translate($field, $language, $value = null)

$post->translate('body', 'en', 'New translated body');

To use the GCT service, do not specify the value and the translation is retrieved and model created automatically.

$translation = $post->translate('body', 'en');

translation method acts similarly and if $createIfNotFresh is set true, it tries to retrieve a fresh translation from the database and if none exists, uses the GCT service.

FAQ

• What about Laravel <5.6?

I'm honestly not sure whether it would work with older version than 5.6 but as of creating this package, only 5.6 and 5.7 are officially supported. If anyone is willing to test it on earlier versions and make sure it works, create an issue and let's discuss it.

Contribution

Feel free to create issues and make PRs to make this package better. I hope you do. :)